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IRE GLEANER GRAHAM N. C. April 29 1879 E. S. PARKER, Editor. CON3 Re 14A, The Army Appropriation Bill ha 1 * pass ed the Senate, as it was suit iroin the House, and has gone to thaPresident. In n short time fhe country will kuow whether its fine is »i> approval, or a veto from the Executive. The provision forbidding troops at the polls was very thoroughly discussed, the ablest, Senators engaging in the debate. Davis of llli> iM>is, the Independent Senator, made a very abl&ppcech in favor of the provis ion. Conkling made a three hotm effort against it, and many other Senators ppokc also upon the measure. In the House,whilcftmich other business has been considered, public attention has been centered upon the Legislative, Ju dicial sud Executive Appropriation bill, with its provision, repealing the (est oath ot Federal jurors, prescribing llw mode of their selection, and also a pros virion yery much modifying the Federal laws. Many speeches were made f>r and against tliesa provisions. The door was opened to the fullest debate, which, afier two weeks duration, closed last Saturday ui ffvo and the House adjourned to meet to day, when the bill will puss. It will tlien go to the Senate where it will be debated for per haps ten days, and will then pass that body. If Hayes approves these bills—all right; but if he vetoes them, there will be consideration as to the course to be pursued. MR STEPHEN'S SILVER BILL PASSED.— It may not bo generally known tiiat sil ver coin of less denomination than one dolh r, is not a legal tender, in suuis of a greater amount than live dollars. For instance, and to illustrate, if you owe a roan one bnndrod dtfllars, and there are twenty men who owe you five dollars a piece, these twenty men can each- pay you what they owe, in silver hal«e» and quarters, making lh* aggregate of one hundred dollars, and you are obliged to take it, but when you go to pay your hundred dollar debt with tbesn halves and quarters, jou can't do it, unless your creditor chooses to tako them. In a word this subsidiary silver coin, as it is •al!ed, is not a legal tender for a greater amount than five dollars. Mr. Stephen's bill, which has passed the House, is in» tended to remedy this evil, and provides that silver money of less denomination than one dollar shall be a legal tender for tweu'.y dollars, and that it may be exchanged for money that is a legal tender when presented in sains of twenty dollars or more. This last provißiots practically makes it h legal tender for any amount, as no one frill refuse it when it can bo exchanged for gold, at the option of the holder. It also maker minor coins, such, as cents and niakles a legal tender at post offices to the amount of three dollars. It is a good bill, an l we hope it will become a law. COL. W ALTEK L. Stkbk —This gentle* I uiaD, representing the Charlotte district in Congress,recently made a speech, which lias produced quite a sensation. Some of the press correspondents go so far as to say it is the best speech of the session. It was of the luiwerous sort, HM) in re ply to charges of violence, lawlessness and intimidation in this State. Col. Steel has a large fund ot information, ind a memory that preserves, wonder ftilly, name* of persons and incidents ot history. In the minutia of his States his*, tory, especially, is he well informed. The •mall occurrences, with all their particu lars, which usually form- the- news of the day, and fade from the Memory, are treasured in the store house of bis mind, ready for Use as occasion may require; and these form vevy effective material for a speech half humorous, half earnest, seasoned with- ridicule and drollery. Charges of political persecution In tbis State are too absurd and groundless to meair serious refutation, and the method Col. Steel adopted in meeting them sp-t pears to have been proper and effective. General John Adams Dix, died at bit home iu New York, last Tuesday. lie was in bis eighty-first year. He bad beld * many positions of honor and trust, both eivil and military. He was a soldier in the war of 1813, was Secretary of War, under Buchanan, after the resignation of Howell Cobb, was a Maj» Genl. in the (Juion army, during tb* war, was For*, eivru Minister, and closed his official ca reer when be retired from ibe Governor ship ot the great State of New York, having been defeated for a seoond term by Samuel J. Tildcn. He was tbe author •f tbe famous telegram to a Lieut, in &ew Orleans "It any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him I *u the snot J' OI'KUCMBKROr CO.WUEM, Genl. Scales, who is recognized as one ot the most u»?ful Representatives in Congress, introduced the following im portant biils: To abolishing tb« tax on brandy made from apples, peaches and grape*; also re funding special taxes collected on bran~ dies made from apples, jieaches and grapes which are in excess of. S3O; also declaring the -tandard silver dollar to be the unit of value; also refunding certain direct tax on lannis collected from-citi* &>ns in the lata insurrectionary States; also to (Hinish crime iu tl.e Indian reser vation. Our people we believe »re thoroughly satisfied with their Representative, and we have never heard one word of co.n plaint during General Scales's career, and he is now atrving his third term, lie is faithful to the tiust reposed in him. In addition' to i( tho t>il!s above enumerated, we see it stated that he has introduced the bill concerning Mexican dollars, which he was unable to have acted upon during the last session. The ; effect of the bill, if it becomes a law, • and there is strong probability of it, will Ibe to make Mexican dollars as good as aDy dollar. This should be done in some way. Some years ago »ha whole country was flooded with them; they escaped from the banks and corporations, were paid out for labor, and to the farmer for bis produce, at par, and suddenly, by the edict of these corporations, they des predated twenty-five cents in the dollar, and tho people are tho losers. They arc held in small amounts by many who dislike to pay out for seventy five c nts what thev received for a dollar. While General Scales' bill doea_|dyt propose to make them a legal tender, it' proposes that revenue officers, post masters and other government receiving agents shall lake kbem at par, and M once send them to the mint to be coined over into the legal tender dollar. They contain more silver than does the legal tender dollar, and it seems to us there can be no good reason why the course proj>osed by Genl. Scales, bill should not be pursued. THE SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION I. AW*. i /- _ TCie Federul Court, in session at Charleston, Judge Bond presiding with the District Jndgn, had before it a large number of persons charged with a viola tion of the Federal election laws. Much interest was felt in these cases, especially as the manner of selecting jurors indi cated a political persecution, instead of a prosecution in vidication of violated la-vs. The attention of the whole couutry was directed to the3e trials, and sharp criti* oisiu of the conduct of Judge Bond bad already been indulged. Tiie whole affair suddenly collapsed last Tuesday, by Judge Bond's direction to the jury to return a verdict of not guilty as to the defendants then upon their trial. This instruction was given upon the ground that the counts in the information were detective, in that they tailed to state that the parties alleged to have been in terfered with hau been molested on ~*X> count of their race or color. This defect I . ... applied to all the counts but one, and that one had not been sustained by any proof. Upon this ruling from the beucb the District Attorney moved a continue ancu of all the political cases to the next November term of the court, ami, theie being no objection by the defendants, it was BO ordered. iORCK .LBD WEArO.IH, It will be remembered that the recent Legislature passed an act, makiug it a crime to carry concealed, deadly weaps ons, which goes iuto effect on the tirst day of next July. At tbe time, we took occasion to say, that iti our opinion the law would be a dead letter on our statute book—that bod men would not regard the law, aud good men would not bo de terred b>' k Irom carrying weapons when tbey thought their persoual safety requir ed it. In trnthit is often prudent, and sometimes necessary for g»d, quiet men to go armed. In our view as tbeu ex pressed we notice some of oor leading papers are concurring. We must take sosioly as it is, and no amount of Legist latiou will make all moral and harmless. Tbe misdemcsuor of carrying concealed weapons, will *1 ways be lost sight of iu tbe greater eriine, ot nsing them, or even attempting to use them, aud U tbey are neither us(o or attempted to be used, no one willfeiow Cfefctbey are carried, if tbe chooses to conceal it. BILLS BT GENERAL SCALES. —ln addition to the bills introduced by Genera) Scales last Monday, mentioned elsewhere, we note the following: For the relief of Daniel M. Cook, Edwin I. Natall and W. H. Thompson, and for tbe building ot a post office and Federal opurt house at Greensboro. Tllli 08«KKVEK, A Tittle more than two years am Messrs. llale and Saunders, gentlemen widely and favorably.known, not ohiv toi* their personal worth and »bility, bul for their experience and fitness ae editors, begun the publication ot The Observer, in Raleigh. The paper, as was to have been expected, at once took its place in the front rank of journalism. Its con* duct has been marked for prudeuce, en terprise and ability. It li®d higher aims than to become the personal organ of an aspiri:Yg man, or to servij an interest less than that of the Stale, and" the great Democratic party. Unswervingly has it maintained the high standard of journal istic propriety and • -excellence marked out for its course. As a private enter pris-e wo should regret its failure as we would the unfortunate venture of worthy men. But The Observer is something more to the people of Norlli and especially to Democrat«, than au in dividual interest wlios" success would be a matter of congratulation to its proprie tor, or its immediate section. Its failure we should regard as a public lo», much more a loss to the Democratic party. So regarding we telt a double regret at the news that came to us last week ot an as signment by its proprietor and editor which seemed to indicate a probable sus pension ; and we were correspondingly gratified to learn that whatever might be the temporary pecuniary embarrassment of its proprietor there was 110 cause for apprelfension that the Stale and party would lose the service ot this leally valo uable paper. In its issue ot last Thuis* day the editor gives the assurance that 7he Observer will continue its publican lion, and knowing this will be gratifying to our readers, we make the following extract: i>iit if was not to mako this public ac kiiowledgmeut-of warui words of highest praise, apart from The Observer's habit IU ihat regard, that those lines are writ ten. Wo wish only to gratify our excel lent friends with the assurance that they have been misled iu regard to The Ob server's luture. This too is apart lroin Tile Observer's habit ot letting things light themselves, Out iu this case it is necessary to say that there is nut and has not been the slightest intention of a sus» pension of i'he observer far a day or lor an hour. Enjoying the full confidence of the Democratic party as a party journal, and the tvarm attachment of the people as a North Carolina newspaper, it is the best newspaper property ever established iu the State, and is easy* capable of very much larger development. Its advertising patronage is good,aud its subscription lists at least double those of even ttie most widely circulated denominational weekly in the state. The individual liabilities iu curred by its editor in the difficult ta->k of establishing a great daily party news paper, not a uiere personal organ, have nothing to do with The Observer, which is free ot incumbrance, and will go on as heretofore in the path marked out tur it as the only proper one for a North Carolina Democratic newspaper. The terrible stringency of the dines which has pies vented the prompt collection of debts duo to him made him unable tc meet the cla'm9 01 u creditor who needed his money, and to prevent misfortune to the paper or to its editor's creditors, it was necessary to take steps, and promptly, to avoid such a calamity by making provis-. ion, as was fully made, for the continu ance of thg newspaper and fulfilment ot all its contracts with subscribers and ads verliscrs. liven before this something .was necessary. Near two years of all night and much day labor iu the conduct of The Observer and all branches ot its business, far 100 great for any one man and therefore to him at least unsatistac torily performed, had been too much for tie. Human endurance had well nigh reached its limit. But The Observer newspaper is a great property, and a great paying property, and whether iu the bauds of others or its present editor, will live tor many years to serve its party and its State. —>KOPUHIU LAW 9, | General legislation appears to have been determined upon by Congress during the extra session. The Uepubli 1 cans, in caucus, determined not to.longor throw obstacles in the way of tl»e intro duction of bills. The flood gates have been raised and the rush is simply astounding. One thousand four hun dred bills introduced iu one day I Just thiuk of it! The Baltimore Gazette has the following sensible comtneuts to make apon it: What under the sun the members of tho House ot Representatives expect to have done with the thirteen hundred and eighty five bills which they intro» dueed yesterday it is doubtful if tliey themselves could tell. There is not 1 tho Irast probability that one in twenty of tho bills will ever come back from the committees to which they will be re ferred, and it is sate to say that not more thau oue in a hundred of them are worthy of the least consideration. There were financial bills of every couctivable kind, providing for about all that any body could desire short ot the distribution ot a barrel of mouey h» every citizen. There were bills tor the relict of Tom, Dick and Harry and numerous claimants uot named, and one ingenious member sent up a bill for the reiiet of all persons not provided for in special bills, which failed, however, to the flow of protected legislation. There were bills to improve tlie navigation of some hundreds ot rivuieU ;bills to make appropriations for every member's district, and bills to change all the existing laws. Each member ou au average, introduced lour or five bills, and the oulv comfort to be derived from th« whole day's work is iu the thought that they must have ex hausted toe supply. if it were necessary 10 consider all the schemes the extra session would have to be prolouged over ' the next tew year*. . «ASHIS«iTO.X liKTTIi.lt, W.vsntMiTON D. C.) April 15 1879. £ There baa been hardly courage enough —political courage, I. hk-u:: —among dem ocratic congressmen. It lias been the wi*e hope ot republicans since the 18ih ot March, when this Congress met, that such a compromise nvoutd be made on the subject oi tree plecl ions and fair juries as woefld amount to a back-down on the part of the democrats, llappily that hope will almost certainly fail. Senator liayard yesterday made a carefully pre pared anil convincing speech on ti.e army bill, taking the ground held by the democratic caucus, that the soldier .should not control the voter, ayd thai (Jongres* should use fffi'.ifiit means to prevent it The Senate will vote on bi'.l Ibis week. SpeCeltes in lhe House for a wecr past, while interesting have not been ot the same hi_h character a- in earl.er da\s ot debate on the legislative bill. Mr. I 1 rye and other leading republicans have spent their time in u > ing to provoke Irom impulsive democrats some expressions which might be u>ed with elleoi in the coming campa gns. Mr. I 1 rye, on Saturday, placed himsell in an unenviablo position, and on", I no him justice to say I don't think was at all agreeable to him, b'.'endeavoring to create an itnpi essiou iliat Mr. lllackbnrn and other represent tative soutlicr.iers were iuaincere in the political language ot their speeches. 1 know Mr. Itlackburn very well, and other represeuialive .southerners were insincere in the political I isguage ot their speeches. I know Mr. Blackburn very well, and believe he could say in Maine or Minesota what he believes and hopes lor in this Government with out ofleiice to] any intelligent voter. So could nearly every southerner now in the House. The eflort to convince northern people that these men ask lor anything which is not tor the interest lor all*to have, is unfair and unpatriotic, and will tail. 'llie National Republican of this niorn ing iu view of the fact that the army bill will pass, lectures Mr. lla>es upon the necessity of vetoing it, and the con sequences, to hi in, of approving it. There has been any amount of bull-dozing and supplication, altcrna'elv, of Air. Haves, in relation to his course on this and the legislative bill —so much, iu fact, that one can hardly help believing that republican leaders have 110 hope foi the future unless the administration is to be allowed to carry the next election by use ot the army anil Federal officials. Yesterday-bdng the fuse Monday of the session in which there was no ob struction to the introduction of bills in the House, there was an avalauclie 0)' them. Those which failed at the last session were re-introiluced and new ones by the hundred. Ail this does not prove that general legislation will be en tered on, though, as at first, 1 think it will be. Representative ot Maryland, introduced the following bill: "That no officer of or contractor with the United IStates shall contribute or solicit others to contribute any money or other valuable thing to any fund for political or party purposes, nor Khali any such officer permit any solicitation, demand or assessment for such purs poses to be made upon thesubordi» nates in his department, bureau or. office; and anv person wilfully offend ing against this provision shall be res moved Irom office, and upon conviction shall be by imprisonment not more than one year, anil by* line not less than one hundred nor 11101 c than live thousand dollars." What a relief such a law a.« that would have been to governmeut officials in 1876 und r 1878 L The late effort of the N. Y. Times to promote the Grant movement has caused great agitation republicans, who very generally desire not to trot out their horses until the track is clear of rubbish. Many newspapers iu the West have taken offence nud exposed the thing as a "put up job." It does have that appearauce, and we outsiders enjoy the fun of the thing. It seems that the 'Times so-call ed canvass was issued simultaneously iu several large cities, with the studied pur pose of boosting the Grant movement. But it fell tilat in many sections. The western papers that mike the most fuss about it, decline Grantism anyhow, and place Senator Windom at the head of the Presidential list. No doubt there is a strong sentiment, eveu in the republican party, for a clean man, and even demon crats admit that Windom is honest and able in his radicalism. HILTON'. The Wilmington Sun reports what it calls a rascally trick, which is in 6ub stance as follows: On Sunday morning,lt week ago. a group of passengers were waiting the train iu the \V. & W. 11. R. depot, wheu iu walked a youug, well dressed, white man, With a smile ou his face and a baby 111 his arms. Ue asked a colored woman to hold tho baby for him, till lie could ruu. lo the telegraph office and seud off a dispatch. She refus ed, but a young while lady, from Mag nolia, took charge of the baby, aud the youug mau with a smile lelt for five tele-, graph office, and forgot to return, 'lhe young lidy remained in Wilmington for a day wailing, ai»d then took the baby aud weut to her home iu Magnolia. The baby is six mouths old with laughing blue eyes. % THROUGH A BURNING BRIDGE.—A freight train on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Rail Road, consisting ot au en gin* aud fourteen heavily loaded ears, went through a burning bridge, near Kansas City, "Mo. The engine das lied across but the cars broke through and pulled it back into the chastn sixty feet deep, and there was nothing left but a mass of siroiildering ruius. Some emit grants met a horrible death. The bridge was fired by tramps who had been put off a train just ahead. GOT. Jarvis was welcomed in Wil mington by the booming ot a caunon aud the huzzas of the multitude. The seventy sixth annual meeting of the Lutheran Synod 01, North Carolina will assemble at Bethel church, iu Stanley county, to-morrow. WATERS' C "S™" ORGANS ire liV most beauttfal r ijfißiSmMunr tone ever inude.Thty Concerto Stop whirl* TO, VESPER, CENTENMAL> Clil.llES, ORCIUMTRIfIfcf CIIUWES, CHAPEI* FA VORITE, SOUVENIH, DULCST and BOU DOIR, OIMJANS, In Dntqne Frenclt.Ca»e» combine PURITY of VOICXNti with jpcat CUUUl'flf touej suitable for PAULOtt cr The case* Oteu beantlfnl Oruniis are RICH I. VFI>IStIEIJ tlll3 in SOI.11) HI.AUK fSgfSwCsii ■*» WAI.NUT, and re murkable alike for vlsr*.'tffelsESq®|||hj purity of tone tinil vISL I^K^YtyTNRIlKfj perfect mechanism. EXTItEMKLY LO\V for CASH on in*;tasJ mints. \V -1 sell a better lnstrnmcni at a lower price than any of her home «n the f, S. WATERS' P3ANOS and Upilsriit,' are (Aj BEST .lIA !>E, the Tone, Touch, Work* manshlp and Durability Unsnrpas«e«f. x War ranted for SIX YJSARS. PI! ICES Extreme ly l.ovrfor Cash. Monthly Installments re ceived. A liberal discount lo leadie *,Minister!, Churche>,fichcoU,Lodgrt, efc.ACEN'TH WANTED. Special liiilnMin«i!ls(slAc Trade. Illustrated Catalogue-* Mailed. Second-hand Pianos & Organs at (i It EAT HAGIJAINS. Sheet Music at Half Price ; como at 1 cent a pn«e. HORACE WATERS & SONS, ManPrs. and Dealers, 40 East 14th Street, New York DAWSON «fc CO., CIIARI.OTTE, H. C.: General Agents for liie Sjlate. S OOHnno for - $ >OQ Piano for $l5O ftiOO Piano for slßf S7OO Piano for $!9.» §BOO Pi ino for #211) ORGANS $37. the very best from 75 to *IOO. Address DAWSON ACo. Charlotte N. C. R 0 an ' Woniblßs hsfcttenreo. BP hn H ggjgyrjj CCT E. * >si-t Unit is £1 u 'SfizS' Greene Co_ Ind. * MOVED! SETTLED!! BUSY!!! To our Customers, Friends, and The Public; We have moved, and are now settled down and busy at work in the Daniel Worth Store where we wish to see everybody and his family, and show them our stock of " ©©© ® § consisting'of everything that any reasonable wants may require. Our Spring and Summer Stock was personally selected by our Mr. MeCauley, paid for in, cash, and is for sale cheap. Besides tibOt'KKIHSI, l)Kl UOODN, IIARIIWAKE, IIOLI.OWARE, NOTIONS, QEKHftWAKE, 6I.AR«WAKK. KEA H> Y-IIIADK CLOTKINU and to be found iu a general store, we have a fine line of iiiiiiii mmm This department is Complete in its arrangements,and comprises all that is to be found in a rcsnilsr millinery store; such as LADY'S and MISSES trimmed and untrimmed HATS. FLATS and BON NETS* TRIMMINGS and a variety of NOTIONS for the ladies. Recognizing the fact that clumsy fingered men are scarcely competent to sliow" and handle Uiese delicate goods, the services of " ' t - Miss Sarah Robertson , have been secured for this department, and she will give her attention to our lady friends. Remember the Daul. Worth store house, Company Shops, and drop in. With thank» for past patronage we disire to still further serve the public. x McCAULEY A BMITH JNO. O. REDD, V T. N. JORDAN, JOHN STADLEft JOHNSTON Henry Co., Va. Caswell Co., N.C. Rockingham Co., N. C. , ,11 If:. ]f Farmers new brick warehouse •a the old Farmers Warehouse Site UMVIUB, Va. To the Farmers and Planters of Virginia and North Carolina: The undersigned, as the propria tors of the 0 FARMERS HEW BRICK WABEHBIB beg 10 eall attention, to its superior advantages of location, salesroom, lights & accommodations, for both nen and teams; and for comfort and convenience generally. The proprietor# arc expericnt d warehousemen, e*pccially our Mr. Redd, and our assistants are all proficients in their several de art 111 en to. We do pt. Ely and ctrictly a warehouse business, and our whole and sttantio" is daroted to the in ten of our patrons. « TBI HIGHEST PRICES, especially for fine grade*, guaranteed. We do not speculate In tobacco, and pledging ourselves , to took ci.O»Ki, V to the sates, and to haddle carefully any tobacco sent a«» or taken in, own ers may rest assured that their.interest will not suffer in our hands, promptness and fidelity our customers may depend npon. * «3~Come to the SE W FARMERS WAREHOUSE, when you come to DanviHe. Yonr» 4^ ; *EL)D, JORDAN * JOHUSrOJL - * * ' ' 0 a * ' ' ~ ■ ' 1 ■ ... .-ji,, Tins standard article is compound ed with the greatest care. Its effects are as wonderful and as satisfactory us ever. It restores gray or faded hair to its youthful colov. . - ■■ It removes all eruptions, itching and dandruff. It gives the head a cooling, soothing sensation of great comfort, and the scalp by its use becomes white and clean. I3y its tonic properties it restores the capillar glands to their normal vigor, preventing baldner'., and mak ing the hair grow thick and strong. As a dressing, nothing has been found so effectual or desirable. A. A. Hayes, M.D., State Assayer of Massachusetts, says, "The con stituents are pure, and carefully se lected for excellent quality ; and I consider it the BEST PREPAIUTIOH " for its intended purposes." Price, One Dollar. Buckingham's 3Dyo FOR THE WHISKERS. This elegant preparation may he relied 011 to change the color of the beard from gray 01* any other nndesir able shade, to brown or black, at dis cretion. It is easily applied, being in one preparation, and quickly and ef fectually produces a permanent color, which will neither rub nor wash off. Manufactured by R. P. HALL & CO., NASHUA, N.H. Ot!i b7 *ll ErugsiJii, ud £mlmi la IbUet&N. 'W»«t* h«' * to i 7. fie vol xrrrr Over 100 Imtoer. Novelties "wKdjjk PRESCRIPTION FRESf For il'" C'lTre ol SteruinsU Weakness. >.osl Manhood and till disorders hroueiit on bv iridts oretroii or exoess. Any Dnigfjist iuis in Jients. Dr. W. JKIfBI *•«.. No. 13# Wot Uxih Cincinnati. «»-
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